Puck — November 12, 1879 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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The Mummery of Masonry. A new Edition of Puck, No. 128, containing above Cartoon, has been published. Copies can be had of all Newsdealers. H. O'NEILL & CO, Gth Ave., Cor. 20th St. Continued Reductions in all Departments. 1000 DOZ. FRENCH FELT HATS, 62 Cents. Full Stock of Satin and Silk Velvet Hats. GREAT SALE OF KID GLOVES. 2500 doz. pair of Ladies* and Gentlemen's Kid Gloves, 50c. and 65c. a pair, worth $1.25 and $1.50. SPECIAL OFFERING. 700 pairs Hamburg Edgings and Insertings at one-half Present market value. DECIDED BARGAINS Blankets and Flannels. CHOICE MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS. Dress Goods and Silks. Great Inducement in Cloaks, Wraps, Dolmans, Forlined Garments Merino Underwear and Hosiery, Gents’ Furnishing Goods, &o. H. OPNHILL & 00. JANESMeGREE 508 B [Rea A large and elegant assortment of’ ARE NOW OFFERING And FUR LINED GARMENTS At Very Low Prices. Try the “PUCK”? CIGARETTE, ‘Manufactured by B. Pouca, New York. ‘ Comin through the rye”’ is not a Bourbon ballad.— Phila, Bulletin, Peru may have lost her celebrated iron clad, but she still possesses her famous bark.— Phila. Bulletin, Texas is thirty-five times as large as Massa- chusetts, and nine million times as mean.— Buffalo Express, ALL lost, but honor! But, thank Heaven, peanuts still sell in Philadelphia at five cents per quart.—Phila, Kronicle-Herald, Tue legend “In God we Trust” on the counterfeit dollar, shines out as bright as a black eye.— Zurner’s Falls Reporter, TaMace is lecturing on “blunders.” The greatest blunder of his life was when he became a minister instead of a circus manager.—Ban- gor Commercial, Ir George Washington had been wise enough to profit by the example of André, he, too, might have had his monument by this time.— Zowis- ville Courier-Journal. A FOREIGN advertisement offers for sale a title possessed by a noble family four hundred years, Cyrus André Field, Prince of Snobs, d'ye mind that?— Boston Post, Since Chinese is being taught at Harvard the students speak broken English in the following elegant manner: “ Sayee, walkee upee, takee dlink ?"—New Haven Register. A Kentucky man was hit in the leg by a bullet, while upon his knees in prayer, and Peck’s Sun says: ‘Such a thing might not oc- cur again in a thousand years in Kentucky.” Be patient. Wait. Den’t fret over last summer's ice bill. Scientists tell us that in 17,000,000 years ice sixteen feet thick will en- tirely envelope this planet, and then the ice man’s extortions will end.—Cinn, Sat. Night An Oregon paper says that a married lady of that State saw a town for the first time in her life when she attended the Grant jubilee at Portland, but the editor carefully abstains from telling us what town it was she saw.—S. F. News-Letter, ‘THere was a bold man named Kelly, Who knocked his own party to jelly, By catching the votes, And bluffing Sam's notes, Which gives Sam cramp pains in the — stomach Instead of a campaign next fall. — Yonkers Statesman. Tue use of whiskey for rattlesnake bites in Texas has increased so enormously during the past year that the overworked snakes have resojved to leave the State unless the Board of Immigration reinforces them strongly. They work on double time, and yet can’t do half the biting that is demanded by the consumers. One snake who does business at Port Lavaca is six weeks behind his orders, and three of the clerks are sick.— Hawkeye, Anp now, ladies and gentlemen, the world- renowned, only and irreproachable, peerless and intrepid bareback rider, the gallant Gene- ral Butler, will appear, for positively the last time, in his great, wonderful and stupendous five-horse act, never before attempted by any man in any country in any age. The great General Butler has been secured at an enor- mous outlay, and appears with no other show but this truly moral exhibition, the Great Com- prehensive Demo-Republico-Greenback-Inde- pendent-Labor Combination. He has been the wonder and delight of cropped heads in all the police courts of the country, Strike up the music! Here he comes! Hoop la!—Bos- ton Transcript. WEBER, MANUPACTURER OF GRAND, SQUARE and UPRIGHT rPrANO Ss. Prices reasonable. ‘WAREROOMS, aids 5th Ave. and West 16th St., New York. 909 BROADWAY 909 Near 20th Street. CARAMELS A SPECIALTY, Fine Bonbons unexcelled for Excellence of Flavors and quality, NEW FRENCH FRUITS. VANILLA MOLASSES CANDY. Large Assortment of Fancy Boxes and Baskets. Favors for the German of my own Importation, E. GREENFIELD. G. H. MUMM & CO.'S CHAMPAGNE, importation 1x 1878 35,906 Cases, or 16,270 than of any other brand. . comicbooks.com